Life Quotes

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Malcomb Forbes

The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Leo Rosten

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is always at some turning point.
Irwin Edman

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
Morihei Ueshiba

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
Isaac Asimov

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Buddha

Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
John N. Mitchell

Life is like a ladder. Every step we take is either up or down.
Unknown

Life is like a grinding stone – it can polish you or pulverize you – depending on how you position yourself.
Larry De Angelo

Life is short. Stunt it.
Andy Samberg

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy

Death is as the foreshadowing of life. We die that we may die no more.
Richard Hooker

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.
Unknown

Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.
CHARLES FROHMAN

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Joseph Campbell

The pleasure you get from life is equal to the attitude you put into it.
Unknown

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
John Steinbeck

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn’t be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.
Kanye West

Life should be enjoyable; too often we think it’s about achievement. The truth is that making life enjoyable is an achievement in itself.
Unknown

It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy—not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.
Naomi Levy

Life beats down and imprisons the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler